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Image of an Unknown Young Woman

Eileen Walsh in Image of an Unkown Young Woman at Gate theatre c. Iona Firouzabadi 2015 (2)

She is a young woman in a yellow dress.
She has been shot by the police.

As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir. 

Ali and Leyla are panicking – they uploaded the footage and now the authorities are after them. Across town, Yasmin is desperate to know if her missing mother is still alive. Halfway around the world, a woman in London wants to help. As a tornado of dissent and violence spreads, everyone’s life is going to change.

Elinor Cook won the 2013 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. This world premiere of her new play takes a startlingly theatrical look at what happens when it all kicks off.

Christopher Haydon Directs.


"a smart, gripping look ... at our unacknowledged capacity for rage and violence."
The Guardian


"pins us to our seats"
The Evening Standard


"The performances are brilliant"
Time Out


"Directed with an adrenalin rush of raw energy"
What's on Stage


"Elinor Cook’s bold play explodes into the intimate space of the Gate Theatre, defiling everything and everyone in its wake"
The Stage


"Angry, intellegent and savagely funny"
The Times

     

Details

Running time: 1hr 30 Min (approx.)

Please note, this production contains strobe lighting.

The Gate produces plays that examine the political, social and cultural issues in the world around us, and so our work often contains adult content. If you have questions about any of our shows, and their suitability for younger audiences, please contact our Box Office, on 0207 229 0706. We'll be more than happy to answer your questions to help you to decide which productions are appropriate for you.

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Mon - Sat 7.30pm

Sat matinees 3pm

8th June 19:00
25th June 2015
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Cast & CREATIVES

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Susan Brown
Susan Brown
Susan plays Candace

THEATRE: GOOD PEOPLE [Noel Coward Theatre], JULIUS CAESAR [Donmar at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York] MAKING NOISE QUIETLY, THE WILD DUCK [Donmar] SAVED (Lyric Hammersmith), IF YOU DON’T LET US DREAM WE WONT LET YOU SLEEP, GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, SEAGULLS, GILBRALTAR STRAIT, DOWNFALL, SHIRLEY, ROAD (Royal Court); HARPER REGAN, THE HOUR WE KNEW NOTHING OF EACH OTHER, PLAYING WITH FIRE, HENRY IV parts 1 & II, CARDIFF EAST (National Theatre); BAD WEATHER, EASTER, ROMEO AND JULIET, RICHARD III (RSC); DYING FOR IT, BUTTERLY KISS (Almeida); THE CONTINGENCY PLAN (Bush); THE CHAIRS, THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (Gate); YOU BE TED AND I’LL BE SYLVIA (Hampstead); SMALL CHANGE, IPHIGENIA (Sheffield Crucible); THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM, BACK TO METHUSELAH, THE VORTEX, THE WAY OF THE WORLD, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE [Cambridge Theatre Company]; PLAYING SINATRA [Warehouse/Greenwich]; TWELFTH NIGHT [ETT].
 
Film includes: BELLE, THE IRON LADY, NOW IS GOOD, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED, HOPE AND GLORY.
 
Television includes: PARTNERS IN CRIME, ATLANTIS, FATHER BROWN, BROADCHURCH, CALL THE MIDWIFE, SILENT WITNESS, STELLA, MIDSOMER MURDERS, WAKING THE DEAD, GAME OF THRONES, TORCHWOOD, BLUE DOVE, DALZIEL AND PASCOE, BRIDES IN THE BATH, LA FEMME MUSKETEER, ROSE AND MALONEY, PINOCHET IN SUBURBIA, LOVING HAZEL, MAKING OUT, CORONATION STREET, ABSOLUTE HELL, NONA, PRIME SUSPECT, THE RIFF RAFF ELEMENT, SEPTEMBER SONG, A TOUCH OF FROST, TAGGART, WOKENWELL, ANORAK OF FIRE, THE VICE, WIRE IN THE BLOOD, THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, ROAD (Prix Italia).
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Oliver Birch
Oliver Birch
Oliver plays Chorus

Theatre credits include: Treasure Island (National Theatre), Moby Dick (Arcola), The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Arcola), Jack and the Beanstalk (West Yorkshire Playhouse), There Is a War (National Theatre), 66 Books (Bush Theatre), The Four Stages of Cruelty (Arcola), The Snow Queen (Dukes Lancaster), Alice in Wonderland (Sheffield Crucible), We All Fall Down (En Masse Theatre), A Month in the Country (Salisbury Playhouse), Macbeth (Broadway's Lyceum/West End/Chichester), Twelfth Night (Chichester), Scenes from an Execution (Sweet Pea Productions),The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
 
TV credits include: In the Flesh (BBC).
 
Film credits include: Macbeth, Peacock Season.
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Ashley Zhangazha
Ashley Zhangazha
Ashley plays Ali

Trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
 
Theatre credits include: AH WILDERNESS (Young Vic), HAMLET (Manchester Royal Exchange), VENICE PRESERV'D (The Spectators Guild), HENRY V (Michael Grandage Company), FENCES (Duchess Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath), MACBETH (Sheffield Crucible), BELONG and TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION (Royal Court Theatre), RICHARD II and KING LEAR (Donmar Warehouse), DANTON'S DEATH (National Theatre), OLIVER (London Palladium), WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND (Aldwych Theatre) and is an alumni of the National Youth Theatre.
 
Television credits include: HUMANS (Channel 4) and ORDINARY LIES (BBC1).
 
Radio credit: Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (BBC Radio 4)
 
Awarded 1st Prize Ian Charleson award after Macbeth (Sheffield Crucible) and Ian Charleson Commendation after King Lear (Donmar Warehouse).
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Isaac Ssebandeke
Isaac Ssebandeke
Isaac plays Chorus

Theatre: Taming of The Shrew (Two Gents), We Are Proud…The Bush Theatre (Off West End Winner: Best Ensemble) One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, (Eclipse Theatre). TV: Cucumber(C4), Casualty (BBC), The Well (BBC), Dubplate Drama (Channel 4), The Dumping Ground (CBBC), Doctors(BBC). Film: Shoot Me (Palladio Films), Columbite Tantalite (Dir. Chiwetel Ejiofor). Isaac is also a writer and his debut play My Darling Wife was shortlisted for the inaugural Adrian Pagan Award 2013 before receiving a staged reading at Talawa's New Writing Festival, Talawa Firsts 2014.
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Wendy Kweh
Wendy Kweh
Wendy plays Nia

Trained: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Theatre includes: Chimerica, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Boeing Boeing, Much Ado About Nothing, The Office Party, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Moonwalking in Chinatown, The Oresteia, The Little Shop of Horrors, Broken Birds.
 
Film includes: Snowden, Hot Hot Hot, The Blue Mansion.
 
Television includes: Apocalypse Slough, Holby City, Coronation Street, Casualty, Murder City, The Year of the Tiger,The Crooked Man, The Bill, Doctors.
 
Radio Includes: Demolition Man, Words and Music, Bare Branches, Boom, Westway.



 
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Anjana vasan
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Recent Theatre Credits include: Behind the Beautiful Forevers & Dara (National Theatre), Macbeth (Manchester International Festival/ Broadway) Taming of the Shrew & Much Ado about Nothing (RSC), Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (National Theatre Wales), 66 Books (Bush Theatre) and Golgotha (Tristan Bates). TV & Film include: Fresh Meat (Channel 4) & Cinderella (Disney).
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Eileen Walsh
Eileen Walsh
Eileen play Yasmin. 

Recent Theatre work includes Lippy,Teh Internet is Serious Business,The Believers,Liola,Sand,Hamlet and many moons ago Disco Pigs.

Film work includes Magdalene Sisters and more recently Catastrophe for Channel 4. 
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Katherine Thorogood
Katherine Thorogood
Katherine holds a First Class degree in English Literature & Theatre Studies from the University of Warwick, and was named Spotlight's Most Promising Actress in 2014. Since graduating she has worked with a variety of theatre companies including SlungLow and Action To The Word, but most regularly with the award-winning Barrel Organ Theatre Company of which she is a founding member. 
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Emilie Patry
Emilie Patry
Emilie plays the Congregant from the 28th September

Emilie trained at the Central School of Speech And Drama and at the Studio 34 in Paris. Theatre credits include Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre), The Gamblers (Greyscale, UK tour), A Beginning, Middle and an End (Traverse/ Tron/ Hull Truck), Stars in the Morning Sky (Riverside Studios), Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down (Arcola), Macbeth (New Wimbledon Theatre), Les Isles Kerguelen (Théatre De La Tempête, Paris), Bastringue (L’Etoile du Nord, Paris). TV credits include Casualty 1907 (BBC), Behind Closed Doors (BBC Scotland), The Advocates (STV) and Gayle Tuesday: The Comeback (Living TV). She is co-founder of Jagged Fence Theatre Company.
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Emma Nairne – Assistant Stage Manager

Emma graduated from The University of Plymouth with a BSc in Psychology in 2009. Her career in theatre began at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she will return this summer for the sixth year, working for The Pleasance.

Most recently Emma has been working as a Stage Manager on the UK tour of Grumpy Old Women (Emma Brünjes Productions), Jekyll & Hyde (Sell A Door, UK Tour) and The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Kill The Beast, UK Tour).

Other professional Stage Management highlights include The Snail & The Whale (Tall Stories, UK & North America Tour), The Heads (Blind Summit, Soho Theatre), The Table (Blind Summit, France Tour), Sex With A Stranger (Invisible Dot Ltd, Trafalgar Studios), Peppa Pig's Party Live! (Limelight Ltd, UK & Ireland Tour), Return To The Silence (Curious Directive, Pleasance Theatre). Emma has also worked extensively with the Guildford School of Acting on productions including Lucky Stiff, Gut Girls, Merrily We Roll Along and The Hot Mikado.

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Magdalena Iwanska – Design Assistant
Magdalena Iwanska received her degree for Design for stage from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is a freelance costume and set designer for stage and screen. Working across a variety of disciplines Magdalena is passionate about design that’s captivating, playful and interactive; transforming the space and telling a story of its own. Her credits include set design for Love and Information at Embassy Theatre directed by Richard Beecham, Before the night is through at Landor Theatre directed by Rob McWhirl and Widows at Webber Douglas Studio directed by Dominic Rouse.
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Elinor Cook – Writer
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Lynette Linton – Director – Future Kitchen
Lynette Linton is a director and playwright. She previously directed Assata Taught Me for the Gate. She is the co-founder of production company Black Apron Entertainment. Her other directing credits include Indenture (Dark Horse Festival), Naked (Vault Festival 2015), Pornado (Theatre Royal Stratford East), This Wide Night (Albany Theatre), a scratch performance of Sweet Like Chocolate, Boy (Rich Mix), and she was co-director on Chicken Palace (which she also wrote, Theatre Royal Stratford East).  

As an Assistant Director her work for the Gate includes Image of An Unknown Young Woman and The Christians and she also worked on Torn at the Royal Court Theatre.  

Her writing credits include Step, Service (Boom Festival, Bush Theatre), Ergo Sum (Theatre Delicatessen) and #Hashtag Lightie (Arcola Theatre).
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Katy Munroe Farlie – Stage Manager
Katy graduated from the University of Hull in 2010 with a Degree in Theatre and Performance. From there she became the resident Production Manager for the New End Theatre until August 2011 before becoming a freelance Stage and Production Manager.
 
Previous credits for the Gate include: The Iphigenia Quartet, In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), The Christians, Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, Chimera, Body of an American (Also taken to Royal & Derngate) Grounded (Also Taken to Edinburgh Festival, and UK & International Tour) No Place To Go, Dances of Death, Purple Heart, The Trojan Women. 
 
Other theatre credits include: Scene and Heard: The Tasty Plays (Theatro Technis) Zelda, Barbershopera (Trafalgar Studios 2); These Trees are made of Blood, The Illusion, The Hairy Ape, Shivered (Southwark Playhouse);Twelfth Night (Minack Theatre); Herding Cats (Hampstead Downstairs); Blue Surge (Finborough Theatre); Bunny (Soho Theatre Upstairs); Mr Happiness and The Water Engine (Old Vic Tunnels).
 
Alongside her Stage Management she also has a Diploma in Body Language and works as a freelance technician and production manager with various other venues and theatre companies.
 
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George Dennis – Sound Designer
George Dennis is a freelance sound designer. His previous credits for the Gate Theatre include: In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Image of an Unknown Young Woman, Eclipsed, The Edge of our Bodies (Gate Theatre). His theatre credits include: The Homecoming (The Jamie Lloyd Company/Trafalgar Studios in which he received a Olivier Award nomination), Babe (Polka Theatre/UK Tour), Harrogate (also HighTide Festival), Primetime ’16, Fireworks, Liberian Girl, Primetime ’15 (Royal Court), The Mountaintop, The Island (Young Vic), Imogen, The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), In Fidelity (Traverse/HighTide Festival), Noises Off (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage/Nuffield Southampton), German Skerries (Orange Tree), Brave New World, Regeneration (Royal and Derngate/Touring Consortium), Forget Me Not, Visitors (Bush Theatre), Eventide (Arcola Theatre/UK Tour), Chicken (Eastern Angles/Unity Theatre), Beautiful Thing (Arts Theatre/UK Tour), A Breakfast of Eels, The Last Yankee (Print Room), peddling (Arcola Theatre/59E59, New York/HighTide Festival), Mametz (National Theatre of Wales), Minotaur (Polka Theatre/Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Spring Awakening (Headlong), Love Your Soldiers (Sheffield Crucible Studio), Thark (Park Theatre), Moth (Bush Theatre/HighTide Festival), Hello/Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre), Liar Liar (Unicorn Theatre), Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath/UK Tour), The Seven Year Itch (Salisbury Playhouse), When Did You Last See My Mother? (Trafalgar Studios 2), Debris, The Seagull, The Only True History of Lizzie Finn (Southwark Playhouse), A Life, Foxfinder (Finborough Theatre).
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Image of An Unknown Woman is part of the Jerwood Young Designers Programme, supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Image of An Unknown Woman was developed with the support of the National Theatre Studio.

The Gate’s work is made possible by public funding from Arts Council England.

We are deeply grateful for the faith in our work shown by our funders.

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She is a young woman in a yellow dress.
She has been shot by the police.

As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir. 

Ali and Leyla are panicking – they uploaded the footage and now the authorities are after them. Across town, Yasmin is desperate to know if her missing mother is still alive. Halfway around the world, a woman in London wants to help. As a tornado of dissent and violence spreads, everyone’s life is going to change.

Elinor Cook won the 2013 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. This world premiere of her new play takes a startlingly theatrical look at what happens when it all kicks off.

Christopher Haydon Directs.


“a smart, gripping look … at our unacknowledged capacity for rage and violence.”
The Guardian


“pins us to our seats”
The Evening Standard


“The performances are brilliant”
Time Out


“Directed with an adrenalin rush of raw energy”
What’s on Stage


“Elinor Cook’s bold play explodes into the intimate space of the Gate Theatre, defiling everything and everyone in its wake”
The Stage


“Angry, intellegent and savagely funny”
The Times

     

Details

Running time: 1hr 30 Min (approx.)

Please note, this production contains strobe lighting.

The Gate produces plays that examine the political, social and cultural issues in the world around us, and so our work often contains adult content. If you have questions about any of our shows, and their suitability for younger audiences, please contact our Box Office, on 0207 229 0706. We’ll be more than happy to answer your questions to help you to decide which productions are appropriate for you.

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